ICT Infrastructure Engineer

Kapila Jayasinghe

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Oracle Ravello. - <a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/ravello" rel="ugc">https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/ravello</a><br />
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Much easier to setup than a Tenancy with Azure, and a Domain Controller!
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No need for a Domain Controller! Nothing is easier that Azure!
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You need a Domain Controller for AD Authentication if you want to create a Tenancy and create lots of student accounts, so Students can access a managed Lab you've created for them, or a Read Only DC linked to your current AD Domain.<br />
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If you just want to let Students create their own accounts that's simple, they can just sign up for free accounts.<br />
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With Oracle Ravello, a Lab can be designed, and you just give them Access via their personal email address. Setup in Oracle Ravello is much quicker for Student based Labs.
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Azure D and E V3 seems to allow nested virtualization. Testing a few scenarios at the moment. However, Oracle's Ravello is quite appealing. Will set up a test tomorrow. Thanks, Andrew and Shaun for the suggestions
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There's Azure AD and Azure DS for that
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Shaun, looks like Azure only supports nested virtualization for Hyper-V only. VMWare Workstation fails to deploy 64bit guest operating systems
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I would personally switch ESXi for VMware Workstation.
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Shaun, looks like Azure only supports nested virtualization for Hyper-V only.
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Definitely not. I have used KVM in Azure
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Shaun, getting a strange error from VMWare Workstation 14. See attached. Hyper-V role is disabled <br />
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Try this then reboot<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-42792371-1"><span>bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off</span>
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Shaun, this didn't help too. However, Azure v3 Ubuntu VM's work as expected. Will do more testing to try and get W10 working
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Is anyone aware of a Cloud Desktop solution that I can use to provide a VMWare Workstation 14 based Virtualisation lab environment for students? <br />
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We want to provide a cloud desktop to the student with 32GB RAM<br />
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Can Citrix XenDesktop (cloud offering) do this?<br />
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AWS Workspaces doesn't provide nested virtualisation (vt-x disabled). However, can build a solution utilising AWS i3.metal instance. Unfortunately this is not available in Australia at this point in time.
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Is anyone aware of a Cloud Desktop solution that I can use to provide a VMWare Workstation 14 based Virtualisation lab environment for students? 

We want to provide a cloud desktop to the student with 32GB RAM

Can Citrix XenDesktop (cloud offering) do this?

AWS Workspaces doesn't provide nested virtualisation (vt-x disabled). However, can build a solution utilising AWS i3.metal instance. Unfortunately this is not available in Australia at this point in time.

Looking for a VT-X enabled Cloud Desktop

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Citrix is the synonym for the virtualization and application infrastructure systems developed by the company of the same name. Main areas are application virtualization, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), cloud-computing and networking. The two most well-known are Citrix XenApp or Citrix CloudPlatform.

Citrix

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.

Cloud Computing

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for use at a single location due to its size and power requirements, usually by one person. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply, motherboard, disk storage (usually one or more hard disk drives and optical disc drives); a keyboard and mouse for input; and computer monitor and printer for output. The case may be oriented horizontally and placed atop a desk or vertically and placed underneath or beside a desk.